Dalton State College junior Spencer Head from Casmas, Wash., was the SSAC men’s cross country runner of the week after leading the Roadrunners to victory with a first-place individual finish in the North Georgia Invitational.Samantha Hogan is the first Southern Conference soccer player of the week from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in four seasons. Hogan, a junior from Gallatin, Tenn., was honored after scoring the late tying goal and assisting on the winner in the last second of overtime against UAB. She then helped the Mocs (2-6-1) tie 1-1 at Tennessee Tech on Sunday.
* The Lee University men’s soccer team pulled out a 3-2 win Tuesday with two-second half goals against North Georgia at Dahlonega. Travis Kiger scored for Lee (5-2) from a David Perez assist in the 10th minute, but the hosts took a 2-1 lead with goals in the 20th and 26th minutes. Perez netted a 25-yard rocket over the keeper from a Quade Marinell pass in the 61st minute, and Flames freshman Jose Orellano broke the tie with an unassisted goal, his first as a college player, at 66:56. North Georgia had a 15-12 edge in shots. Perez leads Lee with seven goals this season.
Golf
* Stuart Thomas finished fourth individually at 4-under-par 212 in leading the UTC men’s golfers to a fifth-pace team finish at 875 in the Janney VCU Shootout that finished Tuesday at the Country Club of Virginia’s Tuckahoe Creek Course in Richmond. James Madison won by nine strokes at 857. East Carolina, UNC Greensboro and Iowa State also finished ahead of the Mocs in the 13-team field. UTC’s Brooks Thomas and Andrew Weathers tied for 24th at 221, and Wes Gosselin tied for 36th at 223.
* The UTC women’s golf team wound up 12th out of 14 teams as the Mercedes-Benz Championships ended Tuesday at Cherokee Country Club in Knoxville. Kent State won with a 54-hole total of 847, and host Tennessee was second at 856 with Blakesley Warren from Chattanooga tying for 18th with a 219 as the Vols’ fourth best score. UTC’s total was 908, led by Emily McLennan in a tie for 34th individually at 223. Cris Perez tied for 48th at 226, and Megan Woods and Sarah Dolmovich shot 232s.